Speakers

• Dr. Compton Bourne, O.E., Professor Emeritus - Key Speaker
• Dr. Roy Thomas Honoree
• Drs. Ram Dwarka, Anton de Kom University, Suriname – Business Forum
• Mr. Gregory McGuire, National Gas Company – Business Forum
• Ms. Angella Persad, T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce – Business Forum
• Dr. Marlene Attzs, Department of Economics
• Mr. Bryan Khan, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago
• Professor Timothy Shaw, Director, Institute of International Relations
• Samantha Joseph, Labour and Human Capital Development
• Mr. Martin Franklin, Department of Economics
• Ms. Donna Ramjattan, Sustainable Economics Development Unit
• Ms. Josanne Leonard, Miribai Communications
• Dr. Suzanne Burke, Department of Creative and Festival Arts   

Samantha Joseph

Biography

Samantha C. Joseph is an MPhil/PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Management (honors) and a Masters in Economics, specializing in International Trade an Econometrics. She has done extensive research in the areas of Migration; Remittances; Caribbean Diaspora and Economic Development and presented these at a number of conferences including the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance 41st Annual Conference in Guyana (2009) and the  SALISES Annual Conference in Trinidad and Tobago (2010). She also served as a Research Assistant in the Department of Economics and Tutor in Statistics, Economic Statistics, Micro and Macro Economics and International Trade for the period 2008 to 2010.

Before her academic pursuits, she served as an Assistant Accountant at Chevron Texaco, St. Lucia in 2004 then lectured for a year at the Ciceron Secondary School in Castries, St. Lucia. Outside the doors of academia she is a motivational speaker with an emphasis on youth development.